human evolution
Human evolution and transitions in individuality Evolution humana y transiciones en la individualidad
... Buss and Michod don’t have much to say about human evolution, though. In a very influential book, Maynard Smith and Szathmary cover a broader terri tory and emphasize the role played by language in the ...
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The role of natural selection in human evolution – insights from Latin America
... In the course of human evolution we have adopted several modes of subsistence. In the beginning we had to rely on hunter-gathering; subsequently, with the domesti- cation process, we became agriculturalists ...
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Human evolution and osteoporosis-related spinal fractures.
... (p,0.01). Human vertebrae are larger in size (volume, cross-sectional area, height) than in apes with a similar body ...adult human vertebrae have significantly lower trabecular bone volume fraction ...
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Viral diseases and human evolution
... ago (Choo et al. 1989). Currently, it infects an es- timated amount of 170 million people worldwide, yet despite a lack of previous records of the dis- ease, we can estimate via the shape of phyloge- netic trees, ...
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The Bilingual Brain: Human Evolution and Second Language Acquisition
... Genetic studies tell us, moreover, that there were several population bottlenecks in our past when our numbers dropped precipitously. The most dramatic of these occurred around 75,000 BCE and is sometimes attributed to ...
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Evaluating the Photoprotective Effects of Ochre on Human Skin by In Vivo SPF Assessment: Implications for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Dispersal.
... Clarified butter is produced by women and red ochre is mined or bought from Zemba land- owners or travelling merchants. While ochre processing occurs arbitrarily and forms part of the general sociable settings of daily ...
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Supraorbital morphology and social dynamics in human evolution
... While there is strong support for a spatial explanation of larger browridges in archaic versus modern humans in that facial reduc- tion reduces the need for large brows to accommodate t[r] ...
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Genetic analysis of lice supports direct contact between modern and archaic humans.
... A recent review by Ashford (2000) reported five parasites that occur on humans as closely related pairs of taxa (lice, tapeworms, follicle mites, a protozoan, and bedbugs). The fact that there are five such pairs caused ...
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Book Review: A Growing Thought
... the evolution of the human family and its consequences for human ...of human life history evolution is to evoke the evolution of pair-bonding, division of foraging labor, and the ...
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Influence of animal fat substitution by vegetal fat on Mortadella-type products
... in human evolution and is an important component of a healthy and well-balanced diet on account of its nutritional properties, its high biological value as a source of protein, and the vitamins and minerals ...
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New Insights into the Evolution of the Human Diet from Faecal Biomarker Analysis in Wild Chimpanzee and Gorilla Faeces.
... We previously reported [55] a successful approach to the Neanderthal diet using faecal bio- markers as direct indicators of the proportions of animal and plant intake. The use of biomark- ers, more specifically faecal ...
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Neuroanthropological Understanding of Complex Cognition – Numerosity and Arithmetics
... cultural evolution in other ...connect human evolution and development with animal cognition studies, but as well with cross-cultural studies in shaping of human ability for numerosity and ...
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Searching for ancient balanced polymorphisms shared between Neanderthals and Modern Humans
... Hominin evolution is characterized by adaptive solutions often rooted in behavioral and cognitive ...the evolution of these traits, it can be hypothesized that genes associated with them should carry an ...
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Urban-local refugee management in Turkey: assessing the responses of local authorities and NGOs in Adana to the Syrian human flow
... the evolution of science and mercantilism, maritime expeditions, or the emergence of revolutionary classes to name a few) that a modern position of human rights was developed, with the Revolutions in ...
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Simulating the evolution of the human family: cooperative breeding increases in harsh environments.
... the evolution of cooperation in harsh environments, in which increased environmental harshness was modeled as an increased energy deduction (a ‘‘cost of living’’) incurred by each agent at each time ...
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Conservation of carbohydrate binding interfaces: evidence of human HBGA selection in norovirus evolution.
... easier to spread via person-to-person contact [9,10,11] and commonly cause outbreaks with clear fall/winter peaks. While future studies are required to identify factors and genetic markers responsible for these ...
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Left-Handedness and Male-Male Competition: Insights from Fighting and Hormonal Data
... in human populations with higher homicide rates (Faurie and Raymond, 2005), suggesting that the evolution of hand preference frequencies could be influenced by the level of aggressive interactions involved ...
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Both size and GC-content of minimal introns are selected in human populations.
... in human populations because the maintenance of an optimal minimal intron length results a better functionality (efficiently processed and exported to the cytosol) for minimal intron-containing ...
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Review essay on David Laibman, Deep History: A Study in Social Evolution and Human Potential
... geographically determined capacity to transform the primary tribal, or communal, social units into subaltern classes – something civilizations elsewhere than in western Europe and Britain, for different reasons, were not ...
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Modeling the time evolution of the nanoparticle-protein corona in a body fluid.
... Recently, we experimentally investigated the role of NP size on the NP-protein interaction, using the same NIPAM/BAM nanopar- ticles (70 to 700 nm in diameter) and plasma. While the amount of bound protein varied with ...
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